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| name = The Murder Room
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| language = English
| series = [[Adam Dalgliesh]] #12
| genre = [[Crime]], [[Mystery fiction|
| publisher = [[Faber & Faber]]
| release_date = 9 November [[2003 in literature|2003]]
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'''''The Murder Room''''' is a 2003 [[detective novel]]
==Plot==
The Dupayne Museum is an eclectic collection of English memorabilia from the period between World War I and World War II. The murder room of the title refers to a room displaying relics of murders that occurred during this period. The Dupayne Museum is the property of three siblings, who are in the midst of a family row over whether or not to renew the lease on the building that houses the museum. When Neville Dupayne is killed in a manner mirroring one of the murders displayed in the Murder Room, Commander Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.
Emma Lavenham, a character from ''[[Death in Holy Orders]]'', becomes important in this novel as a romance develops between her and Commander Dalgliesh. The novel ends with a love letter from Dalgliesh to Lavenham, in which he asks her to marry him. She accepts his proposal.
==Reception==
''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": ''[[The Independent|Independent]]'', ''[[The Observer|Observer]]'', ''[[The Spectator|Spectator]]'', and ''[[Times Literary Supplement|TLS]]'' reviews under "Love It" and ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'', ''[[The Times|Times]]'', and ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' reviews under "Pretty Good" and ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[Sunday Times]]'' reviews under "Ok".<ref>{{cite news |title=Books of the moment: What the papers say |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/153085937/|access-date=19 July 2024|work=The Daily Telegraph |date=12 Jul 2003|page=162}}</ref>
In a 2003 book review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Patricia T. O'Connor called the book "strikingly similar to James's previous mystery, ''Death in Holy Orders''.. But this time something new has been added. Dalgliesh has a serious love interest", and wrote "This is a very busy mystery, full of traffic jams and ringing cellphones—[James] still manages to preserve the element of old-fashioned, hair-raising suspense."<ref>{{cite news |last= O'Connor |first=Patricia T. |date=December 7, 2003 |title=Grisly Pictures From an Institution |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/grisly-pictures-from-an-institution.html |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |publisher= |accessdate=February 27, 2017 }}</ref> ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' wrote: "Despite a plot less ineluctable than her best (Death in Holy Orders, 2001, etc.), James creates another teeming world in which murder is only the symptom of a more pervasive mortality."<ref>{{cite journal|author= |title=''The Murder Room'' |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews|date=18 November 2003|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pd-james/the-murder-room-2/}}</ref>▼
▲In a 2003 book review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Patricia T. O'Connor called the book "strikingly similar to James's previous mystery, ''Death in Holy Orders''.. But this time something new has been added. Dalgliesh has a serious love interest", and wrote "This is a very busy mystery, full of traffic jams and ringing cellphones—[James] still manages to preserve the element of old-fashioned, hair-raising suspense."<ref>{{cite news |last= O'Connor |first=Patricia T. |date=December 7, 2003 |title=Grisly Pictures From an Institution |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/grisly-pictures-from-an-institution.html |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York
==Adaptations==
The BBC adapted the book for a two-part, three-hour TV production released in 2004, starring [[Martin Shaw]] as Dalgliesh and [[Janie Dee]] as Lavenham. The production was released on DVD in the U.S. in October 2005.
A further adaptation was aired in 2023 as part of the ''[[Dalgliesh (TV series)|Dalgliesh]]'' series starring [[Bertie Carvel]].
==References==
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